Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instead of parroting the government line, the Perónista press and radio launched a vicious attack on the paper. Recalling that La Prensa had been similarly attacked for objective reporting of last January's rail strike, observers wondered whether this might be a prelude to a final assault on La Nati...
...turned back. He went on down the road and borrowed a trailer from someone else. Later that afternoon, two deputy sheriffs arrested him. One of the "boys," they said, was 17-year-old Willa Jean Boswell, dressed in dungarees and terrapin shell hat. Farmer Ingram was charged with "assault . . . with intent to commit rape" against...
...niggers." But Recorder Vernon, who is a farmer with no formal legal training, could plainly see that there was no ground for a charge of intended rape. If there were, the case would have to go before a superior court-and a jury. Instead, he found Ingram guilty of "assault on a female," and sentenced him to the maximum: two years of hard labor on the roads...
...sailorman's drink was ever more fairly earned. On April 20 the Amethyst had been steaming up the Yangtse River on a routine mission to Nanking. On the left bank lay the retreating Nationalist army; on the right the Communists were poised for an assault crossing. Suddenly, about 125 miles upriver, some 75 miles from Nanking, the Communists opened up with artillery, fired twelve rounds and scored twelve misses. Fifty minutes later, ignoring Union Jacks unfurled over the side, another and more accurate shore battery scored 53 hits on the Amethyst. Dead and wounded lay scattered about her deck...
...cruiser Indianapolis during the Battle of Bougainville. Later, from his battle post as commander of the cruiser Louisville, he was pulled back to Washington to head the Navy's important Pacific Plans Division, given sea duty once more as commander of Cruiser Division 6 during the assault on Saipan, the landings at Guam, Peleliu, Leyte and Lingayen Gulf. A blue-water man (Annapolis, class of 1916), he is a crack ordnance expert, a good golfer (low 70s). He is married, has a daughter and two sons, each a lieutenant, one Army, one Navy...